-Caveat Lector- <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/"> </A> -Cui Bono?- Dave Hartley http://www.Asheville-Computer.com/dave -----Original Message----- From: Project Censored [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, January 24, 2000 4:49 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Censored Alerts Censored Alerts are brought to you from Project Censored at Sonoma State University: www.sonoma.edu/projectcensored. Censored Alerts are important news stories from alternative, i.e. REAL news, sources. These stories have been censored or under-covered in the U.S. corporate media. The Selling of Small Town America Newspapers Source: The Washington Spectator, June 15, 1999 Author: Mary Walton Half of all the "hometown newspapers" - dailies with a circulation of less than 13,000 - remain caught in a "selling spree" in which 70 percent have changed owners since 1994, some more than once. The American Journalism Review (AJR) reports that "there are 1,489 daily newspapers nationwide and they are changing hands at a dizzying clip." In addition, the AJR reports that from 1994 to 1998 there were 545 transactions, and in 183 of those transactions the same paper was turned over to a new owner a second, a third or even a fourth time. Often the new owners retain publishers. Papers like the Community Newspaper Holdings, Inc., of Birmingham, AL, also keep their names off the masthead. As a result, small-town leaders may be only dimly aware that the rampant "chain-store" phenomenon has claimed yet another local enterprise - their newspaper. Scholarly Publishers Hold Universities Hostage Source: Extra!, January/February 1999 Author: Nancy Kranich A few multinational media conglomerates currently have a monopoly on the publication of scholarly journals and monographs. Over the past 10 years, the cost of journals has increased 148 percent and monographs have increased 62 percent. However, the Consumer Price Index has only gone up 44 percent. Presently, university libraries pay up to $15,000 for one year's subscription to certain journals. Increasingly the money is not in the budgets and libraries must cancel journals. The average research library maintains 15,000 subscriptions at a cost of $3.6 million annually. Journals published by professional associations and societies cost one-third to one-fourth the price of commercial journals with equivalent content. Recent studies show that prices for commercial journals related positively to the firm's portfolio size, and that mergers create significant price increases. Consolidation by large media conglomerates has created a monopoly that's largely responsible for limiting students' access to research and scholarship. <A HREF="http://www.ctrl.org/">www.ctrl.org</A> DECLARATION & DISCLAIMER ========== CTRL is a discussion & informational exchange list. Proselytizing propagandic screeds are not allowed. Substance—not soap-boxing! These are sordid matters and 'conspiracy theory'—with its many half-truths, misdirections and outright frauds—is used politically by different groups with major and minor effects spread throughout the spectrum of time and thought. That being said, CTRL gives no endorsement to the validity of posts, and always suggests to readers; be wary of what you read. CTRL gives no credence to Holocaust denial and nazi's need not apply. Let us please be civil and as always, Caveat Lector. ======================================================================== Archives Available at: http://home.ease.lsoft.com/archives/CTRL.html http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ ======================================================================== To subscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SUBSCRIBE CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To UNsubscribe to Conspiracy Theory Research List[CTRL] send email: SIGNOFF CTRL [to:] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Om
